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Yuno: …that’s the fourth one already?! Hidamari Sketch is seemingly receiving one TV special after another. Not surprising, considering that it’s actually a pretty interesting (and not to mention, comedic) series to say the least.... Related posts:Hidamari Sketch — Special Edition Announced! Hidamari Sketch 3rd Season Announced! Madoka Magica Delayed…For now.
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According to Manga Time Kirara Carat magazine, plans for a new ���Hidamari Sketch��� TV special has been announced. No word yet on a broadcast date. [Source]
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In a previous blog post, I went on for a bit about the specific qualities of Tsukuyomi -MOON PHASE- and Pani Poni Dash that make them stand out amongst other moe-centric works. Since those shows strayed a great deal away … Continue reading →
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Hello again everyone, Let's go ahead with another review of a popular manga/anime that got 3 anime season adaptations plus some OVA. It's name is "Hidamari Sketch" written by Ume Aoki and adapted by Shaft (Yes, that is why Yuno looks like Madoka )   Let's start up with the classic synopsis : Hidamari Sketch centers around a young girl named Yuno who finally is able to get accepted into Yamabuki Art High School, which she has longed for. To attend the school, Yuno moves and starts to live in a small apartment building named the Hidamari Apartments located across the street from the school. Once there, she quickly becomes friends with three other occupants at the apartments, including her classmate Miyako and two second-year students: Hiro and Sae. The events of the characters' everyday lives are shown as they attend the school together and get to know each other better. As the story progresses, the characters move up a year in school as the new school year comes, and two first-year girls enter to live at Hidamari Apartments: Nazuna and Nori. Yes, it's an art school story, but very different from GA Geijutsuka. Hidamari Sketch is more focused on the natural life of these four girls (actually they increase later on) without any particular meaning or other, while GA is more focused on giving some comedy relief. The characters are pretty simple and likable, everything is drawed and behave in a cute manner in this anime and that's maybe the best part of it. There isn't much growth in the characters, but that's reasonable giving the "slice of life" genre of this series. The graphical quality is high, but as always Shaft insert some "artistical" stuff inside the anime so be careful. (Even thought it's pretty light compared to the creepy Madoka Magika backgrounds) Opening and Ending animations are pretty lively and cute, but nothing exceptional or remarkable. The Seiyuu in this anime aren't the most famous (except for maybe Kaori Mizuhashi (Mami from Madoka Magika) and Rie Kugimiya as Chika), but most of them do a good work portraying their own character behaviour and emotion. The OP songs are pretty catchy and fun tunes, but nothing you would hear normally. The ED instead (all done by "marble") are very nice songs you can hear everywhere (maybe I'll do in the future a particular review for some of them) Concluding this series is pretty good and I suggest it to you if you like slice of life and may be a nice pick to let someone start in the anime world. See you soon, feal87
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Toy’s works is going to release the Toy’s works collection 2.5 Hidamari Sketch X Hoshimittsu ( ひだまりスケッチ×☆☆☆ ) trading figure from the manga/anime series “Hidamari Sketch” ( ひだまりスケッチ ). Will be released in April 2011. Around 65mm tall, 648 yen each, 7,776 yen for a Box of 12 pieces. 14 kinds in total. Wow, Hidamari [...]
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Either the Hidamari girls are more stacked than they look, or those uniforms are padded. I can never figure out how to blog about episodes like these, because every time I try, I end up rooting around the fridge for a snack. Obviously I need to learn how to deal with such temptation, although like [...]
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  No wonder they have to exercise every morning. Oh right. Special 1 was being broadcast, then both episodes were out on Blu-Ray a couple days later, then special 2 gets broadcast. I’d feel bad about not paying more attention to release schedules if it wasn’t Shaft and Shaft wasn’t insane. Impressions: Not the most [...]
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After getting all excited about a new episode of Hidamari Sketch at the weekend, what's this?  Another new episode of Hidamari Sketch x☆☆☆?  Be still my beating heart... This second (and sadly final) special episode for this particular series starts out with a bit of a change of pace - at least as far as a slice of life show such as this one can have a change of pace, that is.  This is achieved
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Sometimes, I wish for a world where every week brought me a new episode of Hidamari Sketch.  Sometimes, between all of those special episodes, DVD releases and so on it feels as though I'm a little closer to that world than is actually true.  Regardless, more of this wonderful franchise is always a good thing, and thus the appearance of the first Hidamari Sketch x☆☆☆ Special is quite the birthday
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  Actually, I have no idea how to number this. I certainly did not completely forget about the Hidamari specials airing today and next week. *ahem* Impressions: .The first part was decent and they gave it an extra 5 minutes above and beyond the usual half episode length, which was nice because the second half [...]
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I almost thought I was cheating with this one for a while, mainly because it took me a while to fathom what the 有田 part of the equation was. My dictionary was mostly throwing out pottery, which didn’t seem quite right. Of course, that’s mostly because I have a habit of forgetting that Japanese tends [...]
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While looking through my recently-acquired volumes of Hidamari Sketch, I found myself enjoying the comic well enough, but gravitating more towards the interstitial drawings that populate the pages in between the 4-panel comics. “Wow,” I thought to myself upon first noticing them, “These drawings are really nice and ad have excellent line quality to them. [...]
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Album Title: Sakura Sakura Saku ~Ano Hi Kimi wo Matsu Sora to Onaji de~ Anime Title: Hidamari Sketch x★★★ Artist: marble: Tatsuya Kikuchi, micco Catalog Number: LASM-4045 Release Type: OP/ED Single Release Date: February 10, 2010 Track Title Artist Time 1. Sakura Sakura Saku ~Ano Hi Kimi wo Matsu Sora to Onaji de~ marble 3:47 2. Drury marble 5:15 3. Sakura Sakura Saku ~Ano Hi Kimi wo Matsu Sora to Onaji de~ (off vocal) Tatsuya Kikuchi 3:47 4. Drury (off [...]
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Hayate no Gotoku © Hata Kenjiro/Shogakukan (Serialized in Shonen Sunday) Published in Indonesia as Hayate The Combat Butler by Elex Media Komputindo Contains (TV) Tropes and other   [SPOILERS!](Caution is advised esp. when surfing from pink underlined links) Golden Week has come and gone in RL, but not so in Hayate The Combat Butler Land. In screwball action-comedy at your service volume 20,
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Album Title: Hidamari Sketch x★★★ Original Sound Track: Hidamari • Day’s • Night Anime Title: Hidamari Sketch x★★★ Artist: Tomoki Kikuya, Tatsuya Kikuchi, Dai Murai, Kana Asumi, Kaori Mizuhashi, Yuuko Gotou, Ryoko Shintani, marble Catalog Number: LASA-5041 Release Type: Soundtrack Release Date: March 24, 2010 Tracklist Show » Track Title Artist Time 1. Sate Sate Tomoki Kikuya 0:06 2. Hidamari na Shouchou Tomoki Kikuya 1:37 3. Dekiru Kanatte ☆☆☆(TV size) Tomoki Kikuya 1:33 4. Hidamari Sou no Asa ~Ichi Nensei~ Tomoki Kikuya 1:57 5. Doki [...]
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Hidamari Sketch is kind of hard to explain to someone. I’ve watched all three seasons of this show, and love it, yet I can’t quite put my finger on what I like so much about it. It has this kind of mix of comedy with just slice of life while keeping the characters entertaining. Now, [...]
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Medium: TV Anime/Original Animated Video (OAV) (12 episodes, 2 OAVs) Genres: Comedy, Slice of Life Director: Akiyuki Shinbo, Ryouki Kamitsubo Studio: SHAFT Release Dates: Jan. 11, 2007 – Mar. 29, 2007 (Japanese TV), Jan. 12, 2010 (Sentai Filmworks, N.America) Rated: PG “Wait a second!” I can hear you cry. “A review of Hidamari Sketch? Since when has this site been called 'Moe-Gamers', huh?” Well, shaddup, stop crying “moe trash!” at everything you see, and give the show a chance. Hidamari Sketch is an honest-to-goodness slice-of-life show that actually deserves the designation. The series follows the exploits of a group of perfectly ordinary girls who live in a dorm opposite the Art School that they attend, each story showing a day or two out of their lives. The show sticks closely to its original manga, even while it takes liberties of its own with how it presents events. There is no overarching storyline to complicate things, and indeed the series seems to spurn such an idea by showing stories out of chronological order. This helps you get know the characters quickly by showing selected scenes to assist in this manner, a smart idea in such a character-driven show. This also backfires badly with an excruciating moment in the very first episode when two characters make blunt references to events that have happened previously in the timeline but that you have yet to see. This scene feels particularly absurd because the things being referenced are tiny mundane events, such as “Hey, remember that time the chrysalis you were keeping hatched?' This tomfoolery with time is used to good effect at other times — half an episode may end with characters referencing an earlier event and the second half will show the event itself. In the absence of a larger plot, the cast becomes a key factor in whether you will enjoy the show or not. While each member can be neatly summed up in a single phrase, they all have their own motivations and foibles to set them apart and are developed over the course of the series. Sadly, most of the developments are very limited, and the most impact felt by one is a quickly resolved argument. While this lack of conflict can feel rather stifling, it helps to make the series a relaxing watching experience when paired with its general presentation. The art present in the show is my favorite element, as it never stops surprising you with new ways to enhance the action, or lack thereof. Tricks made easy by digital techniques, such as pasting flat textures as the background layer, including photographic elements or switching colors in an object, abound in Hidamari. Such things are used in a subtle and infrequent manner, never getting in the way of the already sparse narrative, and making you take notice when they do occur. In one particular episode the main character is unwell and is running a high fever, and so is highlighted with a searing red glow that neatly illustrates her condition without being superfluous. The show itself is quite clearly constrained by a low budget and you can spot a multitude of money-saving tricks if you keep an eye out for them, although this sucks the fun out the series very quickly. Hidamari Sketch succeeds as a comedy series because it works in multiple ways. In particular, it preys upon two things in anime that have me laughing every single time: Silly faces and absurd sound effects. I dare you to find someone who is not amused by the idea of a girl pulling a funny face and making convincing horse neighs. Even without the absurd moments, the show maintains an overall air of absurdity in the art and story that leaves you unconsciously smiling while you watch. I want to talk about the release Hidamari Sketch has received, because it was a key factor in my purchasing decision. The entire first series run, including 12 TV and 2 OVA episodes, come packed into a single volume on two discs with no dub track. There are no extras inside the case, and sparse extras on the disc. You boot up a disc and you get a static main menu slapped right into your face, the screen glaring back at you and defiantly yelling “What, you wanted an animated menu? Language options? Hell no, shut up and choose an episode to watch!” Some people I talked to mentioned that they were worried that the high amount of episodes per disc may have impacted the quality of the video image, but I personally have not noticed anything of the sort. One gripe is that the subtitles are sometimes subject to rather clunky and literal translation, which can kill a joke stone-dead, especially as there is no dub track to turn to when subtitles fail. There are also a noticeable number of spelling mistakes in the translation, something I am usually forgiving of. Hidamari is never going to be a breakout hit, and Sentai Filmwork’s decision to release it in this way ensures that costs are kept low for the consumer. It is also a lot more convenient as the entire series is a single item to buy for a reduced price. Hidamari Sketch can be easily summed up as "charming": a nice little show to watch when you are relaxing that will cheer up even the most cynical and crusty of anime fans. NOTE: Your personal viewing experience may vary — due to DVD region locking I had to watch this show using VideoLan VLC player to bypass this idiotic practice and doing so may have skipped some DVD elements. [Recommended] This review is based on a copy of the Sentai Filmworks DVD box set release of the series/OAV purchased by the reviewer. Post a Comment!
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It’s the morning of July 12th and the day begins with morning stretches, but someone decides to bunk her big head into their exercise. It’s none other than Hiro, who instead of ruining their fun, decides to stretch and lose weight along with them. “I’m not giving Jenny Craig another cent!” says Hiro, who realized [...]
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I was reading an article from the BBC, who independently conducted a poll or survey with some polling contractor. You can read all about it here. The study described the internet use and notions of what the internet is good for from a variety of people, all across the world. The surveying was done via online, [...]
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